Vetting Sarah Palin
Soo… hopefully you got a chance to peruse the Times article this morning about some of the recent developments in the McCain camp’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate. I did. Hilarious.
I’m sure by now we all know that her 17 year old unmarried daughter is preggers (you probably caught that yesterday when CNN dropped its coverage of Hurricaine Gustav and began a full court press on Bristol. Seems like a bit of an unfair match to me, but what the hell.) And that Palin’s involved in a lawsuit over the wrongful dismissal of a public safety official who refused to fire her sister’s ex-husband.
But more fun facts came out today! Like the fact that she has a DUI on her record (although that didn’t stop Bush from getting elected) and that she was once a member of Alaska’s Independence Party — one of whose purposes was to drive Alaskans to vote for secession from the Union ( although once again, Bush’s home state of Texas threatens that all the time).
I have to say the best part of it (imho) is the fact that the McCain people did not even ARRIVE in Alaska to BEGIN their vetting process until last Thursday. As you know, McCain announced her as his running mate on Friday. So they had less than a day to find all of the dirt on Palin.
Since you can’t find all the dirt there is on a person in less than 24 hours, she now gets to be vetted in real time. By everyone, including the Democrats, CNN, NYT, AP… you get the idea.
What a delicious mess.
Perhaps the Republicans should do a little bit of catch up on SP by taking the time to read her blog, PalinDrome (actually a clever work of fiction, but then there’s already a lot of that in McCain’s campaign so I’m not sure anyone would notice the difference. Take, for example, their preemptive edits of her Wikipedia page).
All ranting asside, you should check out PalinDrome if you get a chance. It’s really funny.
Thanks for the link, VSL. You’re my cocaine.
Tags: McCain, Politics, RNC, Sarah Palin, VSL